[Publib] Computer Classes: Multiple Email Accounts, One IP Address

[Keri Adams]

We use Yahoo and while we haven't had trouble with the number of students
signing up at one time (6 is max for our class), we have had the timeout
problem.  What we do now is that I explain the entire form to them, they
find an email address that will work,  (and that can take over ten minutes -
no matter how many times I say that Yahoo has been around a long time and
they will need to use numbers people still try to get bill at yahoo,
juansanchez at yahoo or MikeSmith at yahoo), pick a password that works, learn
about capchas, and then at the end I have them refresh the form and fill it
out themselves.  The people who are familiar with the mouse and keyboard can
do before time expires, and I pretty much tell everyone what their capcha is
and occasionally grab the keyboard from a very slow person to finish it off.

Keri Adams
YA Librarian
Johnson Public Library
Hackensack, NJ

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Laura Anderson <
landerson at plainfieldlibrary.net> wrote:

>  Hello Fellow Publibbers:
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> I've been teaching beginning level computer classes here at the library for
> about a year now and continue to struggle with one specific issue.  Every
> time I offer the introductory email class I have to revamp the class because
> every free email provider I've tried has a similar problem: multiple
> accounts cannot be created at the same time range from the same IP
> address/IP range.  I've had problems with Yahoo! email's sign-up page timing
> out before students can finish signing up, and I've tried a provider called
> GMX that limits the number of accounts within about a 24-hour time period to
> 3-5.  This time Gmail was suggested, and when I did some research I see that
> there is a limit of about 10 within a certain amount of time, though the
> amount of time isn't clear to me (1 hour? 24 hours? Indefinite?)
> Registrants are told that they will be able to create their own account.
>
>
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